Tuesday, March 20, 2012

St. Patricks Day Mystery Diner Part 2

In honor of St. Patricks day coming up, please enjoy this re-post.  This particular St. Paddy's day was one of my favorites because not only was it just plain fun, but it was 80 degrees in Michigan!  Unheard of in March!  





Finally, I'm posting about our wonderful celebration!  I've just been too busy soaking up the sun, running the household.  :D  If you missed Part 1 or our Mystery Dinner, you can see it here.
So, we had our lovely friends The Lubberts over for dinner.  They were great sports and totally up for our Mystery Dinner.  A good time was had by all.


Here's my daughter, all decked out in her green.  She was even wearing green corduroy pants--and it was 80 degrees here in Mi.
also very excited about her stick-on earrings.

Originally, it was just going to be for my family, but when we added our friends, I changed a few of my ideas really just to make it easy on myself.  You'll notice some changes here from my Part 1 post.  Things have to be ready to serve up, so, I did prepare some things in advance (and prepared easy things)

Here's what we had:
Shamrock Shake:  Pour the dressing on the veggies and shake her up!  (kids totally dig this)

Leprechaun Pie (recipe here
Spoon Bread   (recipe here)


Taste a Rainbow

Emerald Isle (recipe here)

U-Pick Clover (sour cream cookie recipe here)  This was a decorate your own cookie dessert.

Irish Kiss (napkin)
Blarney Stone (fork)
St. Pat's Sword (knife)
Digging for Gold (Spoon)

As you can see, some of the menu items are your utensils.  This keeps it really interesting!  
Here's our Menu's:



The first thing we do is fill out our menus.  You'll want each person to keep a copy and give a copy to the chef.  All the fun names are listed and 3 courses.  We all eat 1 course at a time, then I serve up the next, and so on.  

How do you celebrate St. Patricks Day?  Or don't you?   I would love to hear from you!  Please share your traditions in the comments.  


I hope you find a reason to celebrate today!

Blessings
~Chellie











47 comments:

  1. I was wondering if you could please send me a copy of your '' St. Patrick's Day Dinner menu" thank you.

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  2. If you leave me your email I'd be glad to!

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  3. Looks like a fun celebration! I am sure your kids really enjoyed it!

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  4. Thank you for some very great ideas. I think my kids would find this enjoyable.

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  5. This is a great post. My kids would happily enjoy trying this.

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  6. We're Italian, so we don't celebrate St. Patty's Day traditionally, but now that my kids are in preschool we may have to incorporate it into our calendar!

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    1. Jamie, I'm always looking for a reason to celebrate!

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  7. Cute way to celebrate St. Paddy's day!

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  8. I'm not sure my family could pull this off with our schedules, but it's a very cute idea. It could probably be done for almost any holiday. Perhaps I can find a holiday that happens in the summer, so we can do something like this around it!
    So cute.

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    1. Staci, we always do it on a weekend! But you've got me thinking, maybe a 4th of July mystery dinner?? Let me know if you pull it off.

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  9. How fun! What a great way to incorporate this holiday in for your whole family. I gotta say, my favorite part is your daughter's earrings! They are just too cute. Pinning this post! :)

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  10. How exciting for your kids. I love how you make a mystery dinner. I am excited to try to do this one day when I have more time. Thank you for sharing.

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  11. I love the decorate your own cookie dessert idea! Even if we can't pull off the whole dinner, we could make that happen!

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  12. My mom always made homemade "Shamrock" shakes. Now that I'm married to a Patrick, we have green cake, which was his mom's tradition - and a crowd pleaser!

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  13. I love the Taste a Rainbow skewers. So cute! We don't do much for St. Patrick's day . . . corned beef and cabbage and cute Shamrock shirts for the kids.

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    1. They are always a hit! I like shamrock shirts too! Or something festive.

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  14. Wow, so cute and creative! Love the shamrock earrings.

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  15. This is an amazing idea and it looks like so much fun. We don't have any friends to have over to do this, nor do we celebrate St. Patty's day. This would be a great idea for any holiday!

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    1. Amy, we originally did this idea at Valentines Day, and we just did it for our family. You have to have some adventurous friends for sure! LOL

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  16. I love how everything looks so festive! The "taste the rainbow" would be great for kids' birthday parties.

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  17. I do like to entertain and your ideas are great. You make me want to call my friends and have them over for a party like this.

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  18. There are a lot of great ideas here. I don't know where to start! :)

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  19. I like your shamrock shake idea.
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  20. This is a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I like to have a Shamrock Shake, that's pretty much the extent of what I do. Of course, I usually wear green. :)

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  21. How fun! I especially love the Shamrock Shake idea! What a wonderful party idea! With St. Patty's day in just a few days, this is a great way to get into the spirit!

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  22. What fun ideas for St. Patrick's Day! I'll have to try some of these ideas with my family.

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  23. I really liked the shicabob rainbow. :) This was a really cute idea. With St. Patrick's Day so close, I would say it is pretty timely.

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  24. I agree with the previous commenter... that fruit rainbow looks delish. This is such a fun idea! I went to a mystery Valentine's dinner at a friends house one year and totally forgot how much fun it was!

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    1. The first time I did a Mystery dinner it was a valentines theme. So fun!

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  25. We don't really celebrate it. I might dress my daughter in green but that's as far as I go. Love the fruit you made!

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  26. This is a cute idea! We celebrated St. Patrick's a bit early, but we had soda bread (with chocolate chips), a nice beef stew and we played "Crystal Lite Pong" since we're not drinkers. It was fun celebrating with a couple with Irish blood in them.

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    1. Soda bread with chocolate chips sounds great! :-)

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  27. We don't really celebrate St.Patrick's Day, except to wear green so we don't get pinched! This looks like a fun party for a family and something I could get my grandkids interested in doing.

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  28. What a great party idea! I love it. This year I'm actually don't something for St. Patrick's day (we baked Irish Soda bread and I might do some crafts with my girls this afternoon!) but usually I forget it. Or get too busy. :) So this is fun! Thanks for sharing.

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  29. We don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day but these are great ideas to incorporate into any party. Thanks for sharing.

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  30. Fun ideas - thanks for sharing them! and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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  31. Looks like you had a lot of fun at your party. I love your daughter's earrings. These recipes also sound perfect for St. Patricks Day.

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  32. I have never had a party on St. Patrick's Day before, but you certainly make it look like a lot of fun. I'm going to have to try this sometime. Thank you for sharing this idea!

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  33. You are so creative. This is not a holiday I really can get into, but we did all at least wear green...

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  34. Fun idea! I usually don't do much to celebrate St. Patty's day, but maybe I should be!

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  35. What a great idea. Looks like fun. I love it! Hope you enjoyed and thank you for sharing.

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  36. This is great!! I happen to be a big fan of St. Patrick's Day so I love new ideas!! Need to pin this

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  37. Wow so creative and festive! This looks like it was so much fun. I had to work so I wasn't able to really celebrate, but you've given me some fine ideas for next year! :) Great to meet you virtually!

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  38. This looks like so much fun. And the recipes sound and look tasty.

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